Despite the resource drain of their recent incursions throughout traveled space, Sansha’s Nation has maintained a military presence in deadspace pockets. One favored Sansha strategy is to hide outposts behind isolated or abandoned Amarr stations. All Sansha communications are then encrypted with an adaptive security key and hidden in pre-recorded Amarr chatter.

The complex security is dependent upon the True Sansha Archduke, a vessel containing a physical network of True Slaves that serve as a living security key for their network. Eliminating the Archduke will render all Nation assets inoperable.

1st room

8 (battleships)

9 (cruisers)/(battlecruisers)

13 (frigates)/(destroyers)

2nd room

9 (battleships)

10 (cruisers)/(battlecruisers)

11 (frigates)/(destroyers)

3rd room

The next deadspace pocket contains a heavy concentration of outbound communication signals, making it easier to detect the Nation signal in the carrier wave. This Nation code, however, uses an adaptive 1024 kilobit lattice key: It will be quicker, and simpler, to eliminate the Archduke than to try decoding the signal.

1 TS (cruiser)

9 (battleships)

11 (cruisers)/(battlecruisers)

12 (frigates)/(destroyers)

4th room

1 TS (battleship)

7 (battleships)

13 (cruisers)/(battlecruisers)

12 (frigates)/(destroyers)

5th room

1 TS (battleship) (immune to EWAR)

11 (battleships)

11 (cruisers)/(battlecruisers)

16 (frigates)/(destroyers)

1 (stasis tower)

The Archduke is eliminated. In approximately 18 seconds, the Nation security key will attempt to cycle and the Nation signal will be rendered into junk data.

Now let’s see if the Archduke dropped anything fun in its wreck.

Note: Value of the complex depends on the dropped faction items. No elite frigates have been spotted - it is possible to warp out any time if needed.